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What is Spacial Patterning?
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Relevance of space and place and understanding variations in health, disease, death
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What is Cholera?
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Food-borne pathogen endemic in S.Asia and India. Can lead to severe dehydration in hours unless treated quickly, severe diarrheal disease
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What did Augustus Peterman 1852 argue?
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Statistics are best displayed in maps
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Who studied Cholera in London?
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Dr. John Snow in the 1840s-50s
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What was Dr. John Snow founder of?
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Founder of modern public health and epidemiology
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What is Ecological Fallacy?
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A methodical error, in which characteristics of a population as a whole are attributed to groups within that population, without any real connection between them being demonstrated
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What is an example of Ecological Fallacy?
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Death rates from breast cancer are higher in countries where fat is a larger component of the diet, idea that fat intake causes breast cancer
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What is ecological inferences?
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Inferences about individual behaviour drawn from data about aggregates
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Perspective 2 - Spatial Patterning of Service Provision is what?
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A parallel approach, concerned with provision, access to and use of health care services
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What is the key issue with Spatial Patterning of Service Provision?
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Accessibility - - Time, Costs, Distance, Catchment areas
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What are the 3 main components of Spatial Patterning of Service Provision?
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1. Structure and spatial patterning of health service facilities (hospital, clinics) at a range of scales
2. Patterns of inequality in supply and use of services
3. Patient utilization of health services, and factors influencing this such as house people decide to use services
2. Patterns of inequality in supply and use of services
3. Patient utilization of health services, and factors influencing this such as house people decide to use services
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What does Humanism in Health Geography ask? (Perspective 3)
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How people understand, think about their health, behave (un)healthfully
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What did Eyeles and Donovan say about this approach?
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"Complete stories about health, health care and sickness in which individuals make sense of their lives"
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What is Participatory?
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Turn to partner and think about how this helps us understand health & health care
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What is an example of Humanism in Health Geography?
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Scarpaci, study of health care access across Chile
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What does the Structural/Materialist/Critical Theme (Perspective 4) focus on?
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Focuses on social causes of differences in health/health care status among individuals and/or groups. Material conditions that underlie inequality
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What is an example of Structural/Materialist/Critical Theme?
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Work restructuring of welfare state and impact on populations
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What does Pluralism (Perspective 5) emphasize?
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Role of culture as a broad system of meanings for making sense of health/health care
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What the (Cultural) Pluralism perspective include?
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Cultural production of place/place-based production of culture
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What is an example (Cultural) Pluralism?
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Therapeutic Landscapes - Sense of place, how life is negotiated through places/space
Quite different from the quantitative approach
Quite different from the quantitative approach
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Who came up with Therapeutic Landscapes?
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Gesler
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